This Instacart Driver Is Literally An Angel: She Went Above And Beyond For An Elderly Customer Then Noticed A Gas Leak In His House
“If you see something, say something.”
We have heard this phrase a lot these days, but we usually would not expect things to happen in front of us. But, this time, TikTok user @jessicahiggs3 emphasizes the words that could save someone’s life by just doing one more step.
TikTok user Jessica is an Instcart worker. She was sitting in her car in her video while telling her audience about the story.
“I did an Instacart order yesterday, and it was a daughter ordering for her older dad who couldn’t shop for himself,” Jessica said in a choked-up voice in the video.
She went the extra mile for this order, which according to her, was not something unusual when she does her job. But for some reason, Jessica felt that she needed to go even further and do some more this time.
Jessica would follow the instruction by putting the groceries on the porch. But her gut feeling told her she needed to help this man out, that this was a situation that required more of her action.
“(Technically,) you are not supposed to go into someone’s house. But I used my judgment,” Jessica continued to explain.
“I brought the groceries in, and I was supposed to take a picture and leave. But I couldn’t just leave.”
TikTok; pictured above is Jessica
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Once she stepped inside the man’s house, Jessica knew what she needed to do. She immediately messaged the man’s daughter, the person who placed the order, and tried to explain that her father might be in a dangerous situation.
“It is very unprofessional of me to say something, and I never talked. I’ve always put the groceries down and leave,” Jessica wrote in the message to the daughter. “But your dad is not doing good, and he looks sick.”
There was a propane tank in the house. Jessica explained that she was five feet away from the tank when she stepped in; soon, she got dizzy. She was sure there must be a leak, and the man was affected by it.
After reading the message, the daughter sent her son to check up on the house. A comment Jessica received the following day from this daughter had proven her concerns.
“Thank you so much. Once my son checked on my dad, it turned out it was leaking,” the daughter wrote. “You saved my dad and my younger son’s life!!!”
Her video hit 17.6 million views and four million likes. In addition, thousands of people went to her page and expressed their appreciation for her kind action.
“Please don’t say that you are ‘just’ an Instacart worker. You are important,” one comment wrote. “And you are amazing.”
“You were his angel placed in that situation for a reason,” another comment wrote. “Thank you for trusting that feeling!”
Jessica’s experience has delivered a valuable lesson; that one kind gesture or one further step could make an absolute difference in someone’s life.
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